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Package: cppreference-doc-en-html
Version: 20170409-2
For some time now, I've been unable to use the offline package of
cppreference with Firefox, because when I try to access the URL
file:///usr/share/cppreference/doc/html/en/Main_Page.html
Firefox reports
Firefox can’t find the file at
/usr/share/cppreference/doc/html/en/Main_Page.html.
Of course, this is a lie: the file is there, and everything else on the
system can find it just fine via that pathname! It appears that what's
really going on is not that Firefox can't _find_ it, but that it's
deliberately refusing to load it, because of some kind of security
policy rejecting file: URLs pointing at locations in /usr/share.
However, I've just discovered that /usr/share/doc is exempt from this
rule. If I manually copy the whole docs tree of cppreference into
/usr/share/doc, e.g. via
sudo cp -r /usr/share/cppreference/doc/html
/usr/share/doc/cppreference-doc-en-html/html
then suddenly Firefox is happy to view the files via URLs such as
file:///usr/share/doc/cppreference-doc-en-html/html/en/Main_Page.html
So, would you consider changing the structure of the cppreference
package so that it installs in /usr/share/doc rather than
/usr/share/cppreference? Perhaps some symlinks might be enough to
arrange that the old pathnames still work too.
Other documentation packages that already do install in /usr/share/doc
avoid this problem, such as rust-doc (which is how I noticed that it was
possible to evade Firefox's block at all).
Cheers,
Simon
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Source: cppreference-doc
Source-Version: 20170409-2.1
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cppreference-doc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated cppreference-doc package)
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:58:26 +0100
Source: cppreference-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 20170409-2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Povilas Kanapickas <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 1059584
Changes:
cppreference-doc (20170409-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
.
[ Michael R. Crusoe ]
* cppreference-doc-en-qch is Multi-Arch: foreign
* enable use of -html in cross-building
.
[ Debian Janitor ]
* Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
* Update renamed lintian tag names in lintian overrides.
* Update standards version to 4.5.1, no changes needed.
.
[ Andreas Tille ]
* d/control: New Homepage
* d/copyright: Point Source to new Homepage
* d/watch:
- version=5
- Point to new location on Github
* Standards-Version: 4.7.3 (routine-update)
* Remove Priority field to comply with Debian Policy 4.7.3 (routine-
update)
* Reorder Files paragraphs in debian/copyright by directory depth.
* Move documentation to /usr/share/doc
Closes: #1059584
* Add debian/upstream/metadata
* d/copyright: Remove old FSF address
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